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Complaint 30728 Details

I got an email for a Mystery Shopper Job, Here is a copy of that e-mail.
You have been selected for assignment as a Detective Shopper
in your area, and you will get $200 as a Detective Shopper.
Your employment packet will include funds for the shopping.

A full job description will be sent to you before your assignment.
Payment will be in form of Money Order which you would be
required to cash a your Bank, deduct your salary, and have
the rest used for the evaluation at the store that would be
given to you to evaluate.

We would like you to participate becouse its fun and rewarding.
After you sign up you will have access to training materials.
Provide the following details if you interested => [email protected]

Your Full Name:
Your Address (NOT P.O Box):
City, State, Zip:
Occupation:
Age:
Cell & Home Phone Number:
Email:


As a detective - shopper you work and shop together for pleasure
and You only work 2-3 hours twice in a week. Thank you and
we await your response.

Regards,
Harvey Williams
Head Recruitment

I answer the e-mail with my inf and he's responed was:

Hello,
You have been hired as one of our Mystery shopper/Survey Agent. For your first assignment, you will be evaluating Western Union Money Transfer Services in your neighborhood. Kindly check out for Western Union outlets/ locations you would like to evaluate, make sure the stores or outlets you choose are close to your area as much as possible.

You will have to send the name and address of the two locations to us. Please note that you are to act Cool, Calm and Confident through out the period which you will be carrying out your survey at the Outlet in order not to arouse any suspicion.

You will write a report about the customer services, you will send your report back to us via Email, you will have to use the following pointers to prepare your report :

1) How long it took you to get services.
2)Ambiance/Outlook of the Shop/Outlet
3) Smartness of the attendant
4)Customer service professionalism
5)Reaction of personnel under pressure
6)Information that you think would be helpful
7)Your comments and impressions.

A package will be sent to you, inside the package you will find your Compensation payment and other funds you will use to carry out your surveying process. You must not use your personal money to complete any of the surveying process and there will be no reimbursement of any kind since we are providing you with all the funds you will need to carry out the survey.

An Evaluation Instruction will be given to you through email, this will tell you what to do at the Western Union location and how to expend the funds at each location. Please reply this Email ASAP and give us the name and address of the Western Union Outlet / location you will be evaluating. If you have any question, get back to me And make sure you send an email back as a response to this email ASAP.

Best Regards,

Your prompt response would be highly appreciated, replying with the Subject THIS IS ACKNOWLEDGED.
Dr Harvey Williams

So I did what he ask and send the inf he requested, and here is he's repond again:
Hello,

The company has issued out payment to you in carrying out your first assignment. You would be receiving the funds for your 1st survey assignment today via FEDEX Courier Service, Friday 28/10/2011 between 10am-2pm. Please make sure you wait at home to receive the package. FEDEX may ring your bell or just leave the package at your front door, so please look out for it. Here is the tracking number of the package,(797671527115). You are required to follow the instructions carefully and get back to me asap with the survey results.

The FEDEX package contains a total payment of $1,870 (2 pieces of $935 M/O). You are to cash the Money Orders at your bank, deduct $200 as your bonus for working with us, you will have $1,670 left. Make use of $100 for your transportation & Western Union Charges. You are required to send a total of $1,570 to another Undercover Surveyor in another location (where a customer reported her funds missing) via Western Union Money Transfer so he can carry out another survey. You are to send the money as money in minutes and the receiver should be paid in US Dollars.


Here is the name of the Secret Shopper in another location which you would be sending the funds to:

Name : Agar F Ramos
City : Bacolod
Country : Philippines
Zip code : 6100
Test Question : Fav.color
Answer : Red



===HOW TO FILL THE MONEY ORDERS===

The Money Orders have 2 sections:

The 1st section {writes pay to}.....in this space you are to fill in your full names and address.

The 2nd section {writes from}.....in this space you are to fill in this name and address:


James Roland
196 W Market St,
Newark, NJ 07103

===YOUR FIRST ASSIGNMENT===
During this assignment which requires you to have the money orders cashed at your bank before proceeding to wire the remaining funds at any local Western Union Money Transfer location in your area, You are expected to secretly perform the following survey operation:

1. How fast and Efficient is the Western Union Money Transfer Service?
2. How long does it take you to have the funds wired?
3. How Close is the Western Union Money Transfer Location to your area?
4. Is the Senders Request Form too short or Long?

You are expected to have this done today and email me back your results with the following information after you have wired the funds.

1. Name and Address of Sender
2. Money Transfer Control Number(10 digits)
3. Amount Wired

I will be waiting to read from you ASAP with the requested transfer details. Your pay would increase after every completed assignment.

Yours Sincerely
Harvey Williams

So I did everything he told me to do on the e-mail and I responded like he requested with all the inf and here is the final respond from him:

Congratulation on your task today, I am hereby Inform you that you did a great Job for the company and they really appreciate your details. Once again Congratulations .
Thanks for your great effort working with us may the spirit of the Lord be with you and your Family .
This email is to notify you that your Next assignment will deliver to you tomorrow or early Am monday morning..your package has been sent out to you through UPS or FEDEX .Tracking will be sent to you any moment from now, kindly check you email at least twice daily for instructions to follow on your next assignment..
Thanks for your anticipated co-operation, also reply asap if you receive this message.

Regards.
Harvey Williams

So some one told my husband that this was a scam and now I'm wayting for does money orders to bonce and I will have to pay the bank back $1570.00. So please now I want the indian fraud unit to punish them and have them return my money, thank you, you can respond to my email at [email protected]

Beware they were US Postal Money Orders.